John Carpenter Releases Lost Themes 2 Music Video; Full Tour Dates
Horror master John Carpenter has a brand new album titled Lost Themes II headed our way on April 15th, which can be pre-ordered via iTunes, and right now we have a new music video on tap for the album’s opening track, “Distant Dream.” Dig it!
Even cooler? We now have the full tour schedule for you cats so read on to see if the master will be playing at a venue near you.
TOUR DATES:
May
- 27 Greece, Athens – Piraeus Academy
- 28 Greece, Athens – Piraeus Academy
- 30 Denmark, Copenhagen – Koncerthuset – Koncertsalen
June
- 02 Spain, Barcelona – Primavera Sound
- 14 US, Seattle – Paramount
- 15 US, Portland – Arlene Schnitzer
- 17 US, Oakland – Fox Theatre
- 18 US, Los Angeles – Orpheum
- 19 US, Phoenix – Mesa Center for the Arts
- 21 US, Denver – Gothic Theatre
- 23 US, Austin – Moody Theatre @ ACL LIVE
- 24 US, Dallas – Majestic Theater
July
- 03 Iceland, Ásbrú ATP – Iceland
- 06 Switzerland, Neuchâtel – International Film Festival
- 08 US, New York – Playstation Theatre
- 09 US, Philadelphia – Keswick Theatre
- 10 US, Pittsburgh – Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
- 12 US, Washington DC – Lincoln Theatre
- 15 US, Detroit – The Masonic Temple
- 16 US, Chicago – Thalia Hall
- 18 US, Milwaukee – Pabst Theatre
August
- 26 Italy, Turin – Today’s Festival
- 28 Italy, Rome – Auditorium Parco Della Musica / Santa Cecilia Hall
October
- 28 UK, Manchester – Albert Hall
- 29 UK, Manchester – Albert Hall
- 31 UK, London – Troxy
Lost Themes 2 Details:
On Halloween 2014, the director and composer John Carpenter introduced the world to the next phase of his career with “Vortex,” the first single from Lost Themes, his first-ever album of non-soundtrack material. In the months that followed, Lost Themes rightfully returned Carpenter to the forefront of the discussion of music and film’s crucial intersection. Carpenter’s foundational primacy and lasting influence on genre score work was both rediscovered and reaffirmed. Lost Themes was also a milemarker in its label’s catalog, being one of the best selling albums in Sacred Bones’ eight-year history. So widespread was the acclaim for Lost Themes that the composer was moved to embark on something he had never before entertained – playing his music live in front of an audience.
The follow-up album brings quite a few noticeable changes to the process, which result in an even more fluid and thematic record. Lost Themes’ cowriters and musicians Cody Carpenter (John’s son) and Daniel Davies (John’s godson) both returned. Unlike their first album, when they often worked over the internet exchanging themes over the course of several years, this time all three brought in sketches and worked together in the same city. The result was a more focused effort, one that was completed on a compressed schedule — not unlike Carpenter’s classic, notoriously low-budget early films. The musical world of Lost Themes II is also a wider one than that of its predecessor; more electric and acoustic guitar help flesh out the songs, still driven by Carpenter’s trademark minimal synth. Lost Themes II delivers eleven compelling new tracks with which fans can continue to score the movies in their minds.
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